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Last updated 2026-07-21 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Clair is a semantic news API: describe what you want in a phrase, and get the news that means it, not the news that merely says it. Deterministic, explainable matching you can reproduce, audit, and tune. Open-core, over a curated corpus of trusted sources.
Is Clair production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Clair 89 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Clair (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 95/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 362 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Kaan Ersoy (@soeranka) · product account @clairnews